The location of Earth's geographic poles has changed several times over the past 320 million years in a process known as true ...

Scientists rebuilt nearly 20,000 genomes from lake algae and amoebae. Fewer than 1 in 20 matched a known genus in genetic ...

Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the ...

Scientists did not arrive at Earth’s age from one clue. Several very different measurements keep pointing toward the same ...

A geologist found an undiscovered meteorite crater in Western Australia on Google Earth in 2007. Later drilling confirmed its ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a remarkable formation in Madagascar that looks surprisingly ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

Suppose that you could create a K–12 science and engineering curriculum from scratch. How would you go about doing it? Over the past four years, that’s essentially what we have done: first by writing ...

CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University Carbondale researchers are observing Earth Science Week by exploring some of ...

There are three things that I remember from my high-school Earth-science class: the swirling pink cover of the study book designed to help us pass New York State’s year-end test, the football player ...